Team-detaching device.



PATBN E'D OCT. 18, 1904. P. m. PEARSON & J. A. HORNSBY- TEAM DETAOHING DEVICE APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2 1904.

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PATENTBD 001". Is, 1904.

No. 772,475. v

' 9 F. M. PEARSON & J. A. HORNSBY.

TEAM DETAGHING DEVICE.

, APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2, 1904.

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- UNIT D STATES Patented October is, 1904.

PATENT. I OFFICE.

FRANK M. PEARSON AND JOHN A. HORNSBY, OF DAIJARK, ARKANSAS.

\ TEAM-DETACHING DEVICE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,475, dated October 18, 1904.

Application filed August 2, 1904.

To a. whom, it may concern.- Be it known that we, FRANK M. PEARSON and JOHN A. HoR-NsBY, citizensof the United States, residing at Dalark, in the county of Dallas and State of Arkansas, have invented new and'useful Improvements in Team-Detaching Devices, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is a team-detaching device, and is an invention that may be applied to any kind of a Vehicle drawn by any kind of an animal or power that'may be attached to the front part of the vehicle; and it consists in a combination of mechanicalparts whereby the team or other power may be detached from the vehicle by the driver.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our invention as attached to the frontend of a vehicle. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view showing the lever device and the means for releasing the swingletrees.

Our invention is described as follows:

In the accompanying drawings the numeral '1 is aperspective view of the body of a vehicle; 2, the axle; 3, the hounds; 4, the stationary bolster; 5, the swinging bolster; 6, the slotted extension footboard. In this footboard the slot 7 represents the arc of a circle cut from the king-bolt center. I

- Secured on the upper faceof the hounds and rear end of the tongue is a plate 8, and rising from this plate and secured thereto is an oblong box 9, having cut in its front face an opening 10. Secured in the rear part and rising from the-upper end of said box is a shaft 11, which passes up through the slot 7 in the footboard 6. Working up and down in said box and in front of said shaft 11 is a lock-bolt 12,- actuated and held down in" place by a spiral spring 13. The lower end of said bolt is cylindrical and adapted to catch and hold a link 14. The upper end of said bolt extends a-little above the ,upper'end'of said box 9 and is provided with an eye 15. Hinged to thesaid shaft ll near its upperend and.

in easy reach of the driver is a lever 16, having extending from its front part an additional short lever 17, provided at its free end with a perforation 18. A rod 19 has its lower Serial No. 219,218. (No model.)

end secured in the said eye and its upper end in the said perforation 18.

Pivoted on the tongue 20 of the vehicle is, a doubletree 20. Secured on each end of said doubletree is an iron band 21, and extending from the front part of said iron band is a spring 22, which springs upwardly. Hinged] in bearings 23, extending from the front part of said bands, is a rod24, andto each end of this rod is rigidly secured a hook 25, in which hooks are hookedthe rings of the swingletrees 26. The free ends of said hooks overlap the free ends of the springs22, so that when said hooks are in proper-position the swingletrees cannot be released. Rigidly secured to said rod 24 is a loop 27, the V end of which extends backwardly parallel with the tongue 20. In the V end of said loop 27 is secured one end of a chain 28, the'other end of said chain bearing a link 29, which passes through the opening 10 of the box 9 and is caught by the lower end of the lock-bolt 12.

. then the team pulling on the hooks turns them forward and the swingletrees and team are released from the vehicle.

It will be seen how easily and surely this invention works. In case of an accident, fright, or runaway the team may be immediately released, the lives of the occupants of the vehicle saved, and the vehicle itself escape injury.

- This invention is described as being applicable to a wagon; but it is apparent that by slight changes in, the construction of some of its parts it may be equally well applied to carriages and buggies Whether drawn by one or two horses.

Having described our invention, what we Patent, is a v 1. In a vehicle, the combination of a plate 8, secured to the front end of the hounds; a box 9, secured to the upper face of said plate, and extending upwardly, and having in its front side an opening 10; a shaft 11, secured claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters in said box, and extending up through a slot 7, in the footboard 8, of the vehicle; a lever 16, pivoted near the upper end of said shaft; a perforated short lever 17, extending from the front side of said lever 16; a lock-bolt 12, working up and down in the box 9; spring 13, operating said lock-bolt; rod 19, one end secured in the eye 15, and the other in the perforation 18; chain 28, one end secured to the V part of the loop 27, the other carrying a link 14, adapted to be caught by the lock-bolt 12; a doubletree 20, pivoted on the tongue of said vehicle; bands 21, secured on each end of said doubletree; springs 22, extending from the front side of said bands; a rod 24c, rigidly secured to the loop 27, and journaled in bearings 23, of the said bands; hooks 25, rigidly secured to each end of said rod and extending upwardly, and over the ends of said springs 22, and swingletrees 26, their rings hooked in said hooks 25, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

2.- The combination of a box, secured to the front part of the running-gear of a vehicle,

and having in its front face an opening; a lock-bolt, adapted to be worked up and down in said box; a shaft, secured in said box and extending upwardly; a lever, pivoted to said shaft near it upper end, and adapted to move said lock-bolt up and down by means of a rod secured to said lever and said lock-bolt; a doubletree, pivoted in front of said box; springs, secured to each end of said doubletree, reaching forward and slightly upwardly; a rod, hinged to the front face of said doubletrce; hooks, rigidly secured to each end of said rod, turning up, and over the free ends of said springs; a V-shaped loop, rigidly secured to said rod, its V part reaching back in the direction of said box; and a chain, having one end secured in the V part of said loop, the other carrying a link adapted to be caught by the lock-bolt, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK M. PEARSON. JOHN A. HORNSBY.

Witnesses:

JOHN L. ALSOBROOK, ZACHRY J. LANTORN. 

